• MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca
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    24 hours ago

    Lot of gymnastics here. This is pretty simple: do not move your unarmed warship through international waters so you can arm it and join an active conflict while your aggressor is literally right next to you.

    The Iranian admiral who ordered this ship to sail is an idiot and this ship was fair game.

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      17 hours ago

      Yes, and schoolchildren will eventually grow up and reach fighting age so they are also fair game. Parents that sent those kids to school are idiots.

      Oh, and parents can have more kids so they are also fair game. People that decided to be born in Iran are idiots.

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        12 hours ago

        Your routine was ambitious but I think you stuck the landing. 10/10.

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      23 hours ago

      Gymnastics my arse. It was an attack on an unarmed ship.

      During a war these grubs can’t justify. Maggots they are.

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        23 hours ago

        An unarmed what? What kind of ship was it? Headed to where? To be armed to with what? To do what?

        The war is not justifiable. But given the context that frigate was done the moment it sailed.

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          21 hours ago

          An unarmed what

          Ship, with human lives on it

          What kind…

          Unarmed. Vulnerable.

          Headed to where

          Home port which still doesn’t justify sinking an unarmed ship

          To be armed…

          To do what

          Then it might be fair game if this war was legitimate but it isn’t. It was only done the moment it sailed because Americans are war criminals and the bad guys.

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            21 hours ago

            I understand this isn’t necessarily hinged on just the legality but it is fair game under the laws of warfare even if the war is an illegal one.

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        12 hours ago

        I get paid in downvotes from people who can’t think. I get paid in replies empty of any rebuttal.